Previous Year Question

Bharat Nirman was launched in 2005-06 for accelerated development of basic infrastructure in rural India. It was initially conceived as a four-year programme covering 2005-09.

Bharat Nirman had six major components of rural infrastructure—

1. Irrigation

2. Rural Roads

3. Rural Housing

4. Rural Drinking Water Supply

5. Rural Electrification

6. Rural Telecommunication

Rural Sanitation was not included among these six components.

This distinction is important because rural sanitation programmes such as the Total Sanitation Campaign were being implemented separately. Thus, sanitation was certainly part of the Government's broader rural-development effort, but it was not one of the six specified components of Bharat Nirman.

The major objectives of Bharat Nirman included creating additional irrigation capacity, connecting unconnected habitations through all-weather roads, constructing houses for the rural poor, providing drinking water, electrifying villages and expanding rural telephone connectivity.